{"id":26404,"date":"2025-07-26T21:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T21:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/26404\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T21:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T21:53:07","slug":"herzog-wants-to-see-a-dead-body-up-close-pros-react-to-steven-nguyen-crushing-mohammad-yahya-at-ufc-abu-dhabi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/26404\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Herzog wants to see a dead body up close\u2019: Pros react to Steven Nguyen crushing Mohammad Yahya at UFC Abu Dhabi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"WAvfYS\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/fighter\/5796\/steven-nguyen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Steven Nguyen<\/a> put on one of the most dominant performances in UFC history, but several fighters are wondering if his fight went too far.<\/p>\n<p id=\"bBeC1v\">In a preliminary featherweight bout at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/fight-card\/1526\/ufc-abu-dhabi-whittaker-vs-de-ridder\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC Abu Dhabi<\/a>, Nguyen absolutely battered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/fighter\/4319\/mohammad-yahya\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mohammad Yahya<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2025\/7\/26\/24474957\/ufc-abu-dhabi-results-steven-nguyen-score-record-7-knockdowns-win-mohammad-yahha-gruesome-eye-injury\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">scoring multiple knockdowns in the first round<\/a> and then doing more damage in Round 2. The bout was mercifully waved off at the end of the second round with Yahya\u2019s eye swelling up in disgusting fashion.<\/p>\n<p id=\"JmWfBV\">Neither referee Jason Herzog nor Yahya\u2019s corner seemed to have any interest in stopping the fight after a brutel opening round, which surprised many fighters watching Saturday\u2019s event.<\/p>\n<p id=\"cH0pOl\">Former UFC fighter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/fighter\/6022\/zac-pauga\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zac Pauga<\/a> wrote on Twitter, \u201cHerzog wants to see a dead body up close and I respect it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"hLot0R\">Veteran MMA commentator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/fighter\/111\/dan-hardy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Hardy<\/a> commented that the Round 1 beatdown looked like a \u201cstop the fight\u201d moment.<\/p>\n<p id=\"8Kz00N\">Check out social media reactions to Nguyen\u2019s performance below.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Looks like a fractured orbital bone!  <\/p>\n<p>Dude is too tough for his own good!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dan Hardy (@danhardymma) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danhardymma\/status\/1949148849534386557?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 26, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kinda felt like a \u201cstop the fight\u201d moment there\u2026 <\/p>\n<p>What was that, five knockdowns?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dan Hardy (@danhardymma) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danhardymma\/status\/1949147557860696132?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 26, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congrats Nguyen you earned that and set a record for knockdowns  <\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Terrance McKinney (@twrecks155) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/twrecks155\/status\/1949149279924408573?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 26, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The whole upper left side of his face is swollen that\u2019s crazy<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Terrance McKinney (@twrecks155) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/twrecks155\/status\/1949148909923967298?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 26, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steven Nguyen put on one of the most dominant performances in UFC history, but several fighters are wondering&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4443,4639,1200,3657,49,48,21191,17202,21190,4640,641,700,21189,701,638,21195,21194,21192,15853,14054,82,21193,696,640,702,9425,2316,21196],"class_list":["post-26404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-a","tag-abu","tag-at","tag-body","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-close","tag-crushing","tag-dead","tag-dhabi","tag-fighting","tag-front-page","tag-herzog","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-mohammad","tag-nguyen","tag-pros","tag-react","tag-see","tag-sports","tag-steven","tag-to","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news","tag-up","tag-wants","tag-yahya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}